Java EE Contracts in England

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Java EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java EE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 508 591
Rank change year-on-year +46 +83 +56
Contract jobs citing Java EE 23 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.45% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 39
10th Percentile £373 £450 £368
25th Percentile £500 £472 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £503
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +29.30% -14.07%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £650
90th Percentile £664 £724 £732
UK median daily rate £331 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -48.04% +27.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java EE in England.

Daily rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java EE in England.

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +38 17 £501 -23.00% 4
London +34 4 £525 +16.67%
North West - 1 £537 -
South West - 1 £400 - 2
North of England - 1 £537 -
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 15 (65.22%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) GitLab
2 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
2 14 (60.87%) JIRA
3 13 (56.52%) Cucumber
3 13 (56.52%) REST Assured
3 13 (56.52%) Selenium
4 9 (39.13%) SonarQube
5 4 (17.39%) Git
5 4 (17.39%) Maven
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Law
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
5 4 (17.39%) Police
6 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.35%) Electronics
7 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Java Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Java Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) GUI Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Java GUI Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) REST
2 9 (39.13%) ARM Templates
3 5 (21.74%) React
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
4 4 (17.39%) JSON
5 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.04%) RESTful
6 2 (8.70%) J2EE
6 2 (8.70%) Java SE
6 2 (8.70%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) Struts
6 2 (8.70%) Web Services
6 2 (8.70%) XML
7 1 (4.35%) CSS
7 1 (4.35%) EJB
7 1 (4.35%) HTML
7 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (4.35%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (56.52%) Configuration Management
3 13 (56.52%) Software Architecture
3 13 (56.52%) Software Engineering
3 13 (56.52%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (56.52%) Test Automation
4 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
6 9 (39.13%) Decision-Making
7 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Agile
10 3 (13.04%) Migration
10 3 (13.04%) Scrum
11 2 (8.70%) API Integration
11 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
11 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
11 2 (8.70%) SOA
11 2 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) OCP
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Sun Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Ansible
2 9 (39.13%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (39.13%) Podman
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) SAP